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File Names In Windows Explorer
My question is does anyone know how to change settings to where a file name
can be as long as you need it to be In other words some files I have when I go to rename them I can only put so much of the file name in when renaming before running out of room, Anyway to fix that without shortening the name? |
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On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:45:55 -0400, "Darth Raider" supernatural.net
wrote: My question is does anyone know how to change settings to where a file name can be as long as you need it to be In other words some files I have when I go to rename them I can only put so much of the file name in when renaming before running out of room, Anyway to fix that without shortening the name? I don't think you can. What length were you hoping for? |
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On 10/21/2010 15:45, Darth Raider wrote: My question is does anyone know how to change settings to where a file name can be as long as you need it to be In other words some files I have when I go to rename them I can only put so much of the file name in when renaming before running out of room, Anyway to fix that without shortening the name? If you can't name a file in 235 characters, you need to re-evaluate your file naming method. |
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"Darth Raider" supernatural.net wrote:
My question is does anyone know how to change settings to where a file name can be as long as you need it to be In other words some files I have when I go to rename them I can only put so much of the file name in when renaming before running out of room, Anyway to fix that without shortening the name? Wikipedia's article on NTFS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS) gives the maximum file name length as 255 UTF-16 code units. That's it, no exceptions. And if you actually have a file name that long, you will doubtless run into problems with some programs that can't handle extremely long paths. -- Tim Slattery http://members.cox.net/slatteryt |
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In article om, "Darth
Raider" says... My question is does anyone know how to change settings to where a file name can be as long as you need it to be In other words some files I have when I go to rename them I can only put so much of the file name in when renaming before running out of room, Anyway to fix that without shortening the name? Like others have and will tell you, you're making a serious mistake if you need longer file names to properly group your files - in fact, if your file name is longer than 20 characters I would say you're making a mistake. I've seen file names like "Dr. Smith, P.HD., CERT I, CERT II, Bio, DOC.DOCX" It's amazing that microsoft permits this kind of crap when that file name would have violated any reasonable standard years ago. There is no reason to allow more than 1 period and certainly not any punctuation in file names - it should be limited to Letters, Numbers, and the Underscore character (to be used in place of a space). There are so many things that don't work well with punctuation. We had a firewall that blocked files sent by a web hosting provider, log reports - something like this "Webcompany.com, your report.xls.pdf" - the firewall saw it as a .COM file attachment and blocked it (which is reasonable), but the tripple extension crap is just plain bad. -- You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that. Trust yourself. (remove 999 for proper email address) |
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On 10/28/2010 08:45, Leythos wrote: In raweb.com, "Darth Raider" says... My question is does anyone know how to change settings to where a file name can be as long as you need it to be In other words some files I have when I go to rename them I can only put so much of the file name in when renaming before running out of room, Anyway to fix that without shortening the name? Like others have and will tell you, you're making a serious mistake if you need longer file names to properly group your files - in fact, if your file name is longer than 20 characters I would say you're making a mistake. I've seen file names like "Dr. Smith, P.HD., CERT I, CERT II, Bio, DOC.DOCX" It's amazing that microsoft permits this kind of crap when that file name would have violated any reasonable standard years ago. There is no reason to allow more than 1 period and certainly not any punctuation in file names - it should be limited to Letters, Numbers, and the Underscore character (to be used in place of a space). There are so many things that don't work well with punctuation. We had a firewall that blocked files sent by a web hosting provider, log reports - something like this "Webcompany.com, your report.xls.pdf" - the firewall saw it as a .COM file attachment and blocked it (which is reasonable), but the tripple extension crap is just plain bad. Along that line, you should see some of the weird problems caused by people using apostrophes in folder names. |
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